too much blood in an area of the brain--arterial or veinous wall that burst and floods the surrounding area with blood.

hematoma

accumulation of blood

aneurysm

artery or vein that has "ballooned out"

hypertension

high blood pressure. over time, can thin out the artery or vein wall and cause hemorrhage

*aphasia

Acquired impairment of language processes that often underlie receptive and expressive modalities and is always characterized by anomia. aphasia is caused by damage to areas of the brain primarily responsible for language function

anomia

word finding/retrieval deficit

shallow centrality

receptive or expressive modalities (how we communicate)

deep centrality

all modalities (how we communicate)

omission anomia

patients didn't say something they could say

commission anomia

patient say something that is a deficit

fluent speech

average of 9 or more words in a phrasing

paraphasia

word substitutions, produced unintentionally and by fluent or non fluent speakers

phonemic paraphasia

(literal) substitution, addition, or rearrangement of speech sounds so that the error sounds similar to the target (pike for pipe)

verbal paraphasia

pathological breakdown in semantic boundaries between words that are related

semantic verbal paraphasia

error bears a semantic relationship to the target

(wife for husband)

unrelated verbal paraphasia

error bears no semantic relationship to the target

(chair for scissors)

neologistic paraphasia

fluently spoken paraphasia, bears no relationship the the patient's native language, usually spoken without recognition of the error

(planker for comb)

no relationship to the word, they dont know they are saying the wrong word